A/N: Alrighty, onto the next chapter, even though my wrist is killing me… I want to finish this and then eat dinner, so no more stalling, I'm trying to be productive tonight… Trying being the key word there.

Disclaimer: I now own some Ibprofen? That's not DMC though…

Shock

The half devil looked at the woman he loved and paused, he could feel her hand shaking against his arm. He promptly pushed her back into a kitchen chair and knelt in front of her.

"What is it?" whatever it was that was causing her such distress would rue the day that it had crossed her, he would make sure of it. She took a couple of deep breaths and then said

"I'm pregnant." Vergil paused, sure that he had misheard her.

"What?" the word came out in the demonic tongue on accident and she just repeated

"I'm pregnant Vergil. You're… you're going to be a dad." she bit her lip then and the half devil could only blink a few times, his brain still trying to process this new information.

"I…" he let out a breathy laugh, he didn't know this was even possible…

"Are you… are you upset?" she asked and he looked back up at her, really looked and realized that she was scared and he immediately pulled her into a hug.

"No, never. I'm just… well I'm just surprised is all, it's kinda a big thing to just spring on someone. Plus… I didn't know if I ever could have kids, some half breeds are… um… unable to."

"So you are going to stick around?" he tilted his head

"Of course I am? Why wouldn't I?" Amelia blinked away tears, it hadn't even occurred to her half devil that he might leave simply at the risk of fatherhood. It was so reassuring to hear though. He was more than willing to stick through this, despite the challenge it might bring them since they weren't married, or even engaged yet…

"I suppose this means I need to move up my plans to ask your father for your hand." he said, running a hand through his hair, bits of his demonic heritage were showing themselves in his shock and nervousness as he lost some of his concentration. She'd asked him once if it was hard to stay all human, he'd told her that it was sometimes, here, mostly because the air was so charged with demonic energy, being so close to the gate that he couldn't help it sometimes. She thought it was cute, it frustrated him to no end because in his words 'it was his power and he should have full control over it, always'. She was pulled out of her thoughts when the words truly registered with her.

"Wait what?" Vergil laughed a little then

"You're not the only one with surprising news, although I guess this ruins the surprise of the whole thing, so… surprise?" she laughed with him then and they were both brought out of their shared shock and mirth by the sound of a pot boiling over. They both rushed over to the stove to do damage control on what they could of dinner.

When everything was under control once more and they were sitting down to eat a slightly overcooked meal Vergil asked.

"So… uh, how far are you?" Amelia blushed lightly, though she swore to herself that there was no reason to be doing so, this was the man who had fathered the child inside her, why should she be embarrassed about that?

"Not very," she said "I didn't have my cycle last month, but that's happened before so I didn't think too much about it but this month I got suspicious so I went and bought some tests, in secret of course, can't have anyone finding out who I wouldn't want to, and I did the tests. They all came back positive, I think that's a pretty clear sign." Vergil nodded

"I would think so… I well… I'll have to start doing some research. For as many books as I have read, ones on babies was not one of them…" he said with a small blush of his own.

"I'll have to do some research of my own. The baby is yours after all." she said and this gave the half devil pause as he let that sink in… his child… his child would have demonic power of their own… Not for the first time, he wondered what Dante was up to, and if his older brother would have any idea of what to do. Or his mother… what had she done, carrying two half demonic children had to have been complicated… At least this should be easier, his demonic half was quite diluted by human blood. Amelia gave him a smile from across the table.

"I love your thinking face." she said and he couldn't help but smile back "What're you thinking about?"

"I was trying to remember if my mother had ever talked about her carrying Dante and I was any different than normal human babies. I don't know."

"Well you were so little when she died, you probably don't- wait do I need to be worried about twins?" she asked suddenly and the half devil paused

"I… I don't know… I mean they're rare for humans but-" Amelia was already shaking her head.

"Not if they have a history of twins in their family."

"Wait, really?" Vergil asked and the brunette nodded, he sighed

"I think it's a definite possibility, devils are usually born as litters of as many as six, depending on the breed of course, what?" he looked up to see Amelia's face pale

"As many as six?" Vergil kissed her forehead.

"Highly unlikely, let me do some research, it's what I'm good at."

A/N: The bomb has been dropped! Seriously though guys, this story is on the wrapping up side, it'll move directly into another one but Vergil's nearly at the end of his rise.

Till next time,

-Winged Element